Fishing Lac Cinq Doigts in Laurentides, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Cinq Doigts lies in Laurentides, Quebec. Taiga runs right down to the water. At 3.67 sq km this is proper open water rather than a pond. With 25 km or so of shoreline, boat anglers cover ground the bank cannot. It ranks high for size among our Laurentides listings. You are 32 km from Rivière-Rouge. Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne sits 115 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. No county line comes close, which keeps the paperwork simple.

• Where to Fish on Lac Cinq Doigts

  No published figure covers depth, so learn it as you fish. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Open biodiversity records for Laurentides list pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, brook trout and rock bass. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Fish Lac Cinq Doigts to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is -15°C to 17°C. A short, intense season is the rule this far north. The lid usually goes in early May, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. The lid tends to go about early May and return around mid November. The weeks after the thaw and the ones before the freeze are the strongest. On Lac Cinq Doigts that shapes the whole year.

• Tackle & Baits

  No public source sets out the position on this bank. It formed naturally, so levels move with rainfall rather than with a gate. Boat access is recorded roughly 1.2 km away. You can camp 1.3 km off, which suits an early start. Toilets show in mapping about 1.2 km away. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Check whether bait restrictions apply before you buy any. For a change of water, Lac Fernand is 1.7 km distant. Check the current arrangement for Lac Cinq Doigts.